How to the Rockets beat the Warriors & Spurs in the playoffs?

I think injuries play into your question more than anything else. I think a healthy Rocket's team takes either to 7 games. Then, it's a tossup.

 

1. We aren't done with the offseason. Still plenty of moves.
2. Bev can shut down Curry. DMo can expose Green and Bogut.
3. We have Dwight Howard. If your best defensive option for DMo and Howard is Aldridge and 40 year old TD, you're done for.

 

How do the beat them? With good health and made free throws.

 

See who is injured, make a gameplan then?

 

By winning four out of seven games.

 

Stay healthy.

Zero doubt in my mind if Bev and Dmo were playing in the WCF Houston could have been up 2-0 going back to the TC.

We missed Bev bad. In a conference littered with star point guards, the lack of his defense killed us.

 

i'm more scared of the thunder

 

Kind of a hard question to answer.

Does the Warriors series change if we have Dmo and Beverley?

 

Health, which means we need some more depth at PG and backup SG.

 

we wont....spurs and warriors wcf finals is a lock.
we are screwed

 

You're right Carl...I don't think "Hope" is a variable that Morey uses in his equations.

Will be hard to believe we go into the season with the same team as last year. At the very least we'll get Stuckey or something.

 

Oh really, will see what happens next season. Rockets will be ready to disappoint the nay sayers once again.

 

If healthy we still have more depth than the Spurs and we're an athletic squad which will be hard for them to match. Other than Kawhi lol. Warriors are a long shot though. They brought all their guys back, and have a third year of being together. Their chemistry should be hard to match. Plus their shooters are better than ours.

I'm more concerned with the thunder to be honest.

 

I'm gonna tell everybody this and every body knows this already. .....if Dwight makes his free throws we freaking win the whole dam thing! Until then we will continue to lose the tight playoff games. He will be sent to the line, Hakeem made his down the stretch. ...Dwight and the combination of Josh will not work unless they learn how to shoot.

 

We dont.

The team needs to be upgraded.

We are not beating a healthy Warriors, Spurs, or OKC in a seven game series.

You acquire the talent first and then look at other factors.

Rockets are not there yet.

If I am those three teams I can easily exploit the following weaknesses of the Rockets:

1) Hole at PG
2) Hole at PF
3) Concentrated perimeter playmaking (JHarden)
4) Pitiful FT shooing
5) Heavy reliance on 3 point shooting but not having the best 3 point shooters.

Sorry, too many exploitables.

Need to narrow that list down.

 

Two of our best players (D12 and Josh) will not be in the game during the crucial 4th quarters because they cannot consistently make free throws. I don't understand why we don't understand this as fans. As a result, we are unable to get stops on defense and now that the Spurs have added the Rocket killer LMA, it's a wrap unless the Spurs bench is ineffective and Duncan/Ginobili falls off.

Both Pop and Kerr will intentionally foul both to make McFail move to a Tjones (not that much better from the line)/Dmo front court, which will get exposed on defense.

Since everyone on here confirms that neither D12 and Josh will improve drastically from the line what are we going to do?

 

For the last time. There. Is. No. Hole. At. PF. We have DMo and Jones. And likely Josh Smith too. We are fine at PF.

 

With style, petite. With style.